How did Benito Mussolini take over Italy?
Italian Fascism rose in a country that had just won a war, but didn't feel victorious. With politics and the economy both looking bleak, the Fascists appeared to many to be Italy's only hope. The rest, mainly Italy's Socialist Party, would be crushed underfoot by Mussolini's paramilitary Blackshirts, who in 1922 would make him Italy's leader by carrying out the March on Rome.

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Sources Consulted
Miller, Stuart T. Mastering Modern European History. London: Macmillan Education LTD, 1990.

Pauley, Bruce. Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini: Totalitarianism in the 20th Century. 4th ed. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2015.